VENTURES AFRICA – Founder/CEO of Mara Group and Mara Foundation, Ashish J. Thakkar today announced the launch of Mara Online during his keynote address at TiEcon entrepreneur’s conference.. Mara Online is an online and mobile eco-system that allows users to communicate, interact and collaborate with each other via social portals, while building communities that are centered around [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The Kenyan government has launched an online portal encouraging cooperative societies to fully incorporate ICT to meet Vision 2030 targets. A developed web portal, Africoop, enables cooperatives intending to create their web page to do business and compete with others. The Daily Nation reports Phillip Gichuki, national deputy cooperative commissioner, as saying cooperatives [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – JP Morgan Chase, the US lending colossus, is set to open a representative office in Kenya after it got a go-ahead from the country’s authorities to do so. This move will improve Nairobi’s attempt to be East Africa’s banking and life insurance hub. Last year, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) thoroughly [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Nigerian tech company, Zinox Group has announced plans to launch what it says will be Africa’s largest single ICT product mall in 2016. Zinox Computers group Chairman, Leo Stan Ekeh, who disclosed the information while speaking as a guest of Honour at the Subsidy Reinvestment Programme (SURE-P) last week, said the mall [...]